2019-02-22T15:18:04ZGerman seafarers, anti-fascism and the anti-Stalinist left: the ‘Antwerp Group’ and Edo Fimmen's International Transport Workers' Federation, 1933–40http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66792
German seafarers, anti-fascism and the anti-Stalinist left: the ‘Antwerp Group’ and Edo Fimmen's International Transport Workers' Federation, 1933–40
Hyslop, Jonathan
Between the mid‐1930s and the beginning of the Second World War, a group of German seamen based in Antwerp combined with Amsterdam‐based Edo Fimmen, secretary of the International Transport Workers' Federation, to wage a campaign against the Nazi government among the sailors of the German merchant fleet. They organized cells of supporters on German ships, encouraged informal resistance, circulated propaganda and planned sabotage. The Antwerp Group was a breakaway from the Comintern‐aligned International of Seafarers and Harbour Workers (ISH). The Antwerp men were reacting against the ineffectiveness of the response of the German communist leadership to Hitler's takeover of power, and against the growing subordination of the ISH to Soviet interests. By highlighting the role of anti‐Stalinist militants in the anti‐fascism of the 1930s, the article contributes to the recent scholarship on anti‐fascism – a scholarship that has tended to emphasize the transnationalism and ideological diversity of anti‐fascism, rather than seeing it in national terms, or as a monolithic entity controlled by Moscow.
2018-08-01T00:00:00ZWhen the choice is made matters : voting in Japan’s 2012 House of Representatives electionhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/66363
When the choice is made matters : voting in Japan’s 2012 House of Representatives election
Rich, Timothy S.; Banerjee, Vasabjit
What inﬂuences the timing of vote choices in mixed-member systems and to what extent does this inﬂuence split-ticketing voting? Although voters cast both ballots in eﬀect simultaneously, they may make their decisions on which candidate and party to support sequentially. Using Japan’s 2012 election as a case study, empirical analyses ﬁnd that the district nominations inﬂuence the timing of one’s district vote intention. Meanwhile the timing of vote choices corresponds with ticket-splitting, even after controlling for partisan and socio-economic factors.
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZThe politics of disembarkation : empire, shipping and labor in the port of Durban, 1897-1947http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65051
The politics of disembarkation : empire, shipping and labor in the port of Durban, 1897-1947
Hyslop, Jonathan
This article examines the labor politics of race in Durban harbor between 1897 and 1947. It approaches the subject from an analysis of labor in a global, and particularly a British Empire, context. The article aims to move away from a solely “national” focus on the South African state and instead to look “up” toward connections to the British Empire, the world economy, and global social and political movements, and “down” towards Durban itself. These large scale (imperial and global) and small scale (city) levels were very concretely connected by Durban's role as a port. This article contends that in order to understand the place of working class Durban in an imperial world, we need to incorporate the shipping industry into other labor histories, studying how the movement of vessels and the actions of seafarers concretely linked these spatial levels. This article provides a broad overview of the sociological “shape” of the Durban working class and focuses on four “moments” of racialized labor in Durban harbor: the riot against M.K. Gandhi in 1897, the British seamen's strike of 1925, the insurgency of black dockworkers in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and the conflicts over the presence of Indian seamen in the port during the Second World War. These events revolved around what is here called a politics of disembarkation, in which the joining of the ship to the world of the shore created a zone of conflict.
2018-05-01T00:00:00ZHow Eritreans in South Africa talk about their refugee experiences : a discursive analysishttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/64396
How Eritreans in South Africa talk about their refugee experiences : a discursive analysis
Tewolde, Amanuel I.
This article reports on a study that explored how Eritrean refugees in South Africa – part of a generational wave of emigrants labelled the “generation asylum” by Hepner (2015) – make sense of their refugee experience and identities, herewith referred to as interpretative repertoires. Interpretative repertoires is a concept coined by sociologists, Gilbert and Mulkay (1984) and later adopted by Potter and Wetherell (1987), to refer to the different and at times contradictory ways in which social actors characterise or describe a phenomenon. Five dominant interpretative repertoires were identified based on a discursive analysis of interview transcripts with 10 participants living in Pretoria, South Africa: (1) the “rights” repertoire; (2) the “embrace your refugee identity” repertoire; (3) the “victimised refugee” repertoire; (4) the “protected refugee” repertoire; and (5) the “criminalised refugee” repertoire. It is argued that participants deployed contradictory and yet complementary repertoires, drawing primarily on lived and imagined experiences in their country of origin and asylum as resources to give meaning to their refugee identities. These repertoires demonstrate the refugees’ ambivalence and bring to the surface the tensions they experience between South Africa’s constitutional promise and their relative legal security, on the one hand, and the everyday threat of xenophobic violence and negative public sentiment, on the other hand.
Article is based on a paper presented at the 2013 SASA Conference.
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